UPDATE: The MCSO confirms to New Times that three sheriff’s deputies have been arrested. Click here for details.The Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office served search warrants at three west Valley locations this morning, and county sources tell New Times the boys in beige are investigating some of their own for alleged…
Recently filed court documents show that State Senate President Russell Pearce’s 30 year-old son Joshua has been sentenced to a year in the Arizona Department of Corrections for violating the conditions of his probation on a 2007 conviction for aggravated DUI. (Both Joshua’s infant son and his wife were in…
Russell Pearce: Pioneer Against Illegal Immigration or Racist?: MyFoxPHOENIX.comKudos to Fox 10 anchor John Hook and executive producer Rod Haberer for the best exposé I’ve seen another outlet do on the subject of state Senate President Russell Pearce and his relationship with Arizona neo-Nazi J.T. Ready. The piece ran during…
Well, here’s some fresh proof that Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu’s “Munnell memo” report is a complete whitewash, and that Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio was, is, and always will be in complete control of his agency. While he’s still sheriff, that is. Today Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne’s office…
I’m really beginning to wonder about Arizona Republic columnist Doug MacEachern’s sanity.Yesterday, I pointed out that MacEachern was regurgitating Glenn Beck’s conspiratorial leftovers, wailing like a stuck javelina that controversial former University of Colorado professor Ward Churchill was present when student activists took over a Tucson Unified School District board…
He just took you for $100 million in protected taxpayer funds.You are one of the following: 1) a senile ol’ coot skerred of Messcans2) a tebagging piece of white trash with a do-rag and a Harley3) a rich Republican goober like Steve Ellmanor4) a GOP hack looking for an endorsement.Whether…
The Arizona Republic’s Doug MacEachern continues to prove himself a shrill, conspiratorial wuss, one so unoriginal, he has to ape Glenn Beck, of all people.In his latest misleading ditty about ethnic studies, MacEachern practically pops a vein informing all and sundry that Ward Churchill, the controversial former Colorado professor, who’s been pilloried for…
Len Munsil, a conservative activist who ran against former Governor Janet Napolitano in 2006, was once investigated by Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s corrupt anti-corruption unit. In the “Trifecta case,” as it was called by Arpaio’s minions on the Maricopa Anti-Corruption Enforcement team, Munsil was investigated for supposed improprieties stemming from the 2006 race. The…
Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s under attack by crazy “big government libs” and needs your support. This according to the bizarre worldview of Rob Haney, chair of the Maricopa County Republican Party. He feels so bad for Sheriff Joe Arpaio and three other conservative leaders who have taken criticism lately that…
Courtesy of the Three Sonorans blog. Now here’s a quiz: What do all these people have in common? Just a coincidence, I’m sure…It’s the easiest thing in the world to label someone a Marxist, a commie or un-American. You don’t need any real evidence. All you need to do is…
A top aide to Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio doesn’t believe his boss was “out of the loop” of information in his own office. The opinion by Deputy Chief Paul Chagolla, made to investigators probing the misconduct allegations of some of Arpaio’s other top men, fuels the idea that Arpaio knew…
A kitchen manager at Desert Canyon Golf Club in Fountain Hills was fired — twice — because he complained that female workers were being sexually harassed, says a federal complaint. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission filed the suit (see below) yesterday, demanding that the club’s parent company, Golf International, stop illegally…
I hate to be that guy, but we told you so. Last night Channel 12 aired news hound Joe Dana’s interview with Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s Chief Financial Officer Loretta Barkell concerning the $100 million Arpaio and his upper echelon pilfered from two protected funds. The money paid for witch-hunts of Arpaio’s…
Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio won’t say whether one of his deputy chiefs, Paul Chagolla, deserves to be investigated for allegedly threatening an Arizona Republic reporter two years ago. Arpaio would only tell us yesterday that “it’s not over” — a reference to the still-unfolding scandal of mismanagement and allegedly…
A nativist nutcase sticks Corky Gonzales quotes into the cheap blender of her brain and makes mush of it allIt’s always amazing to me the way ignorance spreads like a vicious rash through the Internet. One idiot spouts some bull that the confirms the prejudices of the far right, it…
Will I miss having state Senate President Russell Pearce to kick around once he’s been recalled, his career ended in disgrace?Yes and no. Of course, I want to see this menace to humanity flattened (metaphorically) like a Looney Toons character crushed by a cartoon anvil. But, I must admit that…
As I type this, Maricopa County Supervisor Mary Rose Wilcox and a number of local activist groups are having a press conference calling on Sheriff Joe Arpaio to resign and for the feds to take the sheriff’s office and the jails into receivership.Of course, I support that call, but I…
Since our prior post about the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office’s “ass-beating” detective/reality TV star Detective Deb Moyer, we’ve got some new information about a recent domestic-violence situation between her and her husband. First: Moyer’s husband also is one of Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s boys in beige. In fact, he’s…
A new Arizona law that limits the ability of labor unions to harass employers with picketing and defamation has drawn a federal complaint by two local unions. The United Food and Commerical Workers Local 99 and the Local Union No. 469 of the United Association of Journeymen and Apprentices of the Plumbing and Pipefitting…
We’re thrilled sad to report that Deb Moyer, a Maricopa County sheriff’s deputy who starred (abused power) in the TLC network reality TV show Police Women of Maricopa County is in some trouble. Moyer was arrested over the weekend in connection with a domestic-violence incident with her husband Peoria police…
Los Lobos was never officially part of the Sound Strike, the musicians’ boycott of Arizona over Senate Bill 1070, Sand Land’s notorious breathing-while-brown law. But when the old-school Chicano rock band announced the cancellation of a gig at Scottsdale’s Talking Stick Resort in June of 2010, they earned plaudits from many in…
The scriptures advise us that a gentle answer turneth away wrath. Apparently it has the effect of disarming Tea Baggers as well.That proverb was put to the test last Sunday at Phoenix’s Margaret T. Hance Park where a couple of hundred people gathered to celebrate International Workers’ Day, otherwise known…
